Alcoholics Anonymous

John · John

A big thank you goes out to everyone who made a donation to help pay for 2 years coverage on our web hosting and domain address! The total donated in the past 48 hours is 323.52. 275.00 was needed to cover our web site hosting and domain name registration (12stepforums.net) for 2 years. This leaves us...

Tomas · Tomas

I came into AA as an unemployable stockbroker at 30The problem I couldnt make it in to the office most of the timebecause I drank 24/7. I was offered a fine job in Boston with a firm that I apparently interviewed with at a barbut couldnt remember the firm I interviewed with as an Institutional Bond Trader...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

"Staying physically sober presents no particular problem for me. I'm amazed at how easy it is for me to accomplish today that which I found impossible before the program. Emotional sobriety, on the other hand, presents quite a different problem. This requires considerably more of my focused...

joby · joby

Just a quick note, my favorite part of the prayer. " Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil". This to me is such a powerful request. We, or I, am faced with temptation and evil everyday, and it makes me feel good to asked my HP to relieve of these temptations and evils. In the begin...

mikef · mikef

45 years ago I completed my active duty during the Vietnam Era (65-72)On this day ,especially, I remember all the warriors of yesterday,today and tomorrow.The ones I served with and didn't make it back and those still in theater.The God of my understanding had other plans for me and for this I am trul...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

My first meeting with my sponsee is in about an hour. I read everything I could last night about sponsoring others and this morning I re-read Chapter 7 "Working With Others" and tried to remember everything which happened in the first meeting with my sponsor....everything I was told. Sur...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

"AA romances are not usually a good thing. There is a small chance that they might work if both parties have twenty years of sobriety and spiritual programs of planetary perfection. For a newly sober sponsee it may be better to take a break from sex and romance until some progress has been made on h...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.John F. Kennedy

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost. --Roy L. SmithHumankind has made such great technological progress, developing marvelous tools and instruments to make our life easier, that it is hard to imagine the struggles our ancestors endured. We are so used to these pro...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. --LongfellowEvery day for us is a period of spiritual growth. Restful sleep prepares us for fruitful days. As each day begins, a new adventure in growth lies ahead. We se...

Flynn · Flynn

Because it contains a Truth the fellowship doesn't want you to know or hear about. I can tell you about how the "Woodstock/Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice/Easy Rider generation" gave me a big green light to "join the herd" by partaking in all sorts of substances...includ...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Weekly VerseThere will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land. Deuteronomy 15:11Weekly QuoteWe cannot do great things on this earth, only small things with great love. Mother TeresaWeekly Thought...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude. Dont complain.Maya Angelou

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Relaxing when things don't go as you planned.So, the boyfriend calls, says he's going hiking with his buddies for a week, cancels his date with you and says he hopes you won't be mad.Or the bank calls and says you're overdrawn, and you don't know how that can be. You've been trying to carefully watch you...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Nothing happens but first a dream.Carl Sandburg

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

I just wanted to apologize to those of you who look forward to these daily posts ... for some reason, unknown to me, they stopped coming to me ... they're back, so here goes: The last of ones freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.Viktor Frankl

Enigma · Enigma

Well the new job is going well. All my criminal court is behind me no jail time. I found a apartment I'm interested in yesterday and have first dibs. It just kind of fell in my lap, thanks GOD. Trying to hash out with the wife about who gets what and who's responsible for what. She agreed to let me have some th...

Angell · Angell

Ever have one of those ah-ha moments when you realize that things have changed and you didn't recognize it til this moment? Just had one of those. I have recently shared some e-mails with a couple of local folks in AA and the things shared were, in my opinion, some high quality spiritual snippets. I w...

Philipld · Philipld

EASY DOES ITKEEP IT SIMPLEHOW IMPORTANT IS ITLIVE AND LET LIVELET GO AND LET GODDONT OVER ANALYZEDONT THINK THINK THINKLEARN TO RELAXLIGHTEN UPGET OFF THE TRAINIF ITS FIXED DONT FIX ITSTAY OUT OF THE DRAMATHE ONLY ONE YOU CAN CONTROL IS YOUDONT SWEAT THE PETTY STUFFACCEPT THE THINGS YOU CANNOT CHANG...

Lizmccal · Lizmccal

So I have a new male friend. I'm not dating I only have 6 months and honestly I'm doing what is suggested of me. This person I really really like. He has an amazing story. He is two years younger than me and has 13 years sober. We have gone to coffee and dinner and I have now had him to my house for dinner. We bare...

Philipld · Philipld

This Matter of Fear By Bill W. As the AA Book says, "Fear is an evil, corroding thread; the fabric of our lives is shot through with it." Fear is surely a bar to reason, and to love, and of course it invariably powers anger, vainglory and aggression. It underlies maudlin guilt and paralyzing d...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light.--Evelyn ScottWe need to know that we matter in this life. We need evidence that others are aware of our presence. And thus, we can be certain that others need the same att...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

I have been a victim of my own self-defeating thoughts for most all of my life. I bought into my flawed belief system in that when a thought entered my mind, I believed it. No matter how ridiculous, absurd, unfair, unkind, negative, and especially how untrue it was--it was "true" to me becau...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

The other night right before a meeting, I was reaching into the fridge to get a can of water. When I did this, I knocked out a glass of milk (we use glasses for creamers for our coffee sometimes when I'm too lazy to wash the creamer). The glass hit the floor and milk went everywhere--under the fridge, front...

Philipld · Philipld

What is a dry drunk, and the dry drunk syndrome as it is sometimes called? It can best be described as someone who fits one of two conditions. The first is someone who has given up drinking and drugging and not made any internal or emotional changes, they stay the same but the substance is gone. Or in the se...

Mike B. · Mike B.

May 22"Over the years I've gone to different types of groups to meet different needs in my life or to share experience, strength, and hope about a particular problem I was struggling with. Some days I've been part of the solution for another suffering alcoholic; other days I've been the one who w...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Patience is needed with everyone, but first of all with ourselves.--Saint Francis De SalesOne night Sandra was having trouble putting a puzzle together. Angrily, she pushed all the pieces into a huge pile."I can't do this," she said. She got up and walked over to the couch and plopped dow...

Mike B. · Mike B.

May 23 "The word 'alcoholic' does not turn me off anymore; in fact, it is music to my ears when it applies to me."

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

Example: Having coffee with another AA'er and my bf. (This person does not have a sponsor, has not worked the steps and is several years sober.) I have overlooked his joking comments about me in the past however decided to take up for myself last night (I was busy yesterday

) and gave it back...

gonee · gonee

The great thing about AA recovery, is the freedom to chose. It's in this environment that I best see the recovery of the individual, from alcoholism. When I came into AA in 1988, I made an investment in my recovery. I bought all the literature that was available at that time, sought the best sponsorshi...

gonee · gonee

Prayer is the language of the heart to talk to God. We may use words to express it. Meditation is the listening of the heart to God's word. We may use our ears to listen. AA's step 11: "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only f...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"You silly thing," said Fritz, my eldest son, sharply, "don't you know that we must not settle what God is to do for us? We must have patience and wait His time."--Johann R. WyssThe story of the shipwrecked Robinson family is a lesson in patience. It was years before their rescue...

Philipld · Philipld

Twelve Steps of a Relapse 1. I decided I could handle any emotional problems if other people would just quit trying to run my life. 2. I firmly believe that there is no greater power than myself and anyone who says differently is insane. 3. I made a decision to remove my will and my life from God, who didn't...

Col · Col

Hi all! It's been some time since I've posted here. That's not to say I don't periodically check in to read up on the board- it's great to see so many new faces. This board and it's members helped me out quite a bit back when I was a new newbie ... I'm still a newbie in my eyes, but not as new to recovery as I once w...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

May 19, 2014Quote of the Week"I have to change what I want to get what I want." When I was new in the program, my sponsor suggested that I make a list of all the things I wanted and hoped I'd get from being sober. That was easy because I had a long list. I went ahead and made my list - items that wou...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.Zig Ziglar

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.Lao Tzu

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"The secret, kid," said the seal, bending toward him and speaking behind his flipper, "is to have a good compass and a following wind." --Will Watkins Sid Seal, HousemanThe secret, for us, is to never let our recovery become "dead in the water." We keep a good compas...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

He has served who now and then Has helped along his fellowmen. --Edgar A. GuestIt's hard to be interested in something that seems too remote. Sure, we're sorry for starving people in faraway places. And the TV news story about whole villages disappearing in an earthquake makes us feel terrible - unti...

Philipld · Philipld

There are some people who thrive on high drama. They like to create it. They feel most comfortable when theyre surrounded by it. Constant drama is not only a lot of work for the individual who is creating it but it is also very draining for those who are around them. It usually doesnt take long to recogniz...

grammii · grammii

Is there anything set up to send proof of attendance to meetings for my probation officer? sent a note to the posted email on website and it was returned undeliverable. Looking forward to my first meeting tonight.

Mike B. · Mike B.

May 21 "I can recognize that I'm caught up in my will when I desperately struggle to slam a square peg into a round hole. That's the time for me to back off and trust that God's will is far better than mine."

Philipld · Philipld

Prayers in the Big Book Step 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying ONLY for knowledge for His will for us and the power to carry that out. The Eleventh Step starts at the bottom of page 85 and extends through page 88. It's a goo...

Mike B. · Mike B.

May 20 "Through Step Five, God has removed my shame about being an alcoholic."

Lizmccal · Lizmccal

Anyone else have this problem. I seem to be going through withdrawls and keep wanting to post stuff and be liked with a thumbs up and all my drinking friends are on there so I'm not on there now well anymore. I got sick of being invited out to bars even thought they know I don't drink anymore and seeing there...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

After the week I had last week and this week seems to be starting out about the same, I decided to do some research to see how to cope with it better. I have heard that getting close to a year gets a little rough for AA members. So I researched the following..... "12 Months Hairy AA" ....and the se...

Philipld · Philipld

Step 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong PROMPTLY admitted it. Notice that the Tenth Step says that when we were wrong we promptly ADMIT it. It doesn't say that when we were wrong we promptly JUSTIFY it. The first three Steps are designed to bring us to the point where we beco...

Angell · Angell

It seems ironic to me the cyclic nature of life once I got into recovery. So much of what I did in the past, I have adopted once again. My behavior looks similar, but it is for entirely different reasons. I once put myself last, because I believed I wasn't good enough. Then I risked believing that I was...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

I wanted to share this.... Just some more shi@ about me which had so much to do with leading up to where I am now. It is pretty long-winded so there is a back arrow in the upper left hand corner of your computer for your convenience if you start to get bored. About six years ago, I went to a therapist for marita...

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	MIP Site Hosting and Domain Reg. Funding Met! (Preview) A big thank you goes out to everyone who made a donation to help pay for 2 years coverage on our web hosting and domain address! The total donated in the past 48 hours is 323.52. 275.00 was needed to cover our web site hosting and domain name registration (12stepforums.net) for 2 years. This leaves us...	John	2	674	May 27, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	GOD DON'T BUILD NO JUNK (Preview) I came into AA as an unemployable stockbroker at 30The problem I couldnt make it in to the office most of the timebecause I drank 24/7. I was offered a fine job in Boston with a firm that I apparently interviewed with at a barbut couldnt remember the firm I interviewed with as an Institutional Bond Trader...	Tomas	8	871	May 27, 2014 by Mike D
	Emotional Sobriety (Preview) "Staying physically sober presents no particular problem for me. I'm amazed at how easy it is for me to accomplish today that which I found impossible before the program. Emotional sobriety, on the other hand, presents quite a different problem. This requires considerably more of my focused...	betterthanyesterday52	1	505	May 27, 2014 by Mike D
	The Lord's Prayer (Preview) Just a quick note, my favorite part of the prayer. " Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil". This to me is such a powerful request. We, or I, am faced with temptation and evil everyday, and it makes me feel good to asked my HP to relieve of these temptations and evils. In the begin...	joby	6	890	May 27, 2014 by Stepchild
	I salute you! (Preview) 45 years ago I completed my active duty during the Vietnam Era (65-72)On this day ,especially, I remember all the warriors of yesterday,today and tomorrow.The ones I served with and didn't make it back and those still in theater.The God of my understanding had other plans for me and for this I am trul...	mikef	5	680	May 26, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	What Have You Gotten Out of Sponsoring Another Alcoholic (Preview) My first meeting with my sponsee is in about an hour. I read everything I could last night about sponsoring others and this morning I re-read Chapter 7 "Working With Others" and tried to remember everything which happened in the first meeting with my sponsor....everything I was told. Sur...	betterthanyesterday52	14	691	May 26, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	AA Romances (Preview) "AA romances are not usually a good thing. There is a small chance that they might work if both parties have twenty years of sobriety and spiritual programs of planetary perfection. For a newly sober sponsee it may be better to take a break from sex and romance until some progress has been made on h...	betterthanyesterday52	19	2261	May 26, 2014 by Flynn
	Sunrise Quote - 5/26 (Preview) My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.John F. Kennedy	Pythonpappy	1	410	May 26, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift - 5/26 (Preview) The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost. --Roy L. SmithHumankind has made such great technological progress, developing marvelous tools and instruments to make our life easier, that it is hard to imagine the struggles our ancestors endured. We are so used to these pro...	Pythonpappy	2	445	May 26, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift - 5/25 (Preview) Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. --LongfellowEvery day for us is a period of spiritual growth. Restful sleep prepares us for fruitful days. As each day begins, a new adventure in growth lies ahead. We se...	Pythonpappy	2	415	May 26, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	The Story You Won't See In The Big Book (Preview) Because it contains a Truth the fellowship doesn't want you to know or hear about. I can tell you about how the "Woodstock/Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice/Easy Rider generation" gave me a big green light to "join the herd" by partaking in all sorts of substances...includ...	Flynn	5	1385	May 26, 2014 by Flynn
	Weekly Thought --- (religious concept) (Preview) Weekly VerseThere will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land. Deuteronomy 15:11Weekly QuoteWe cannot do great things on this earth, only small things with great love. Mother TeresaWeekly Thought...	Pythonpappy	2	465	May 26, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Sunrise Quote - 5/25 (Preview) If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude. Dont complain.Maya Angelou	Pythonpappy	0	399	May 25, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 5/24 (Preview) Relaxing when things don't go as you planned.So, the boyfriend calls, says he's going hiking with his buddies for a week, cancels his date with you and says he hopes you won't be mad.Or the bank calls and says you're overdrawn, and you don't know how that can be. You've been trying to carefully watch you...	Pythonpappy	4	458	May 25, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Sunrise Quote - 5/24 (Preview) Nothing happens but first a dream.Carl Sandburg	Pythonpappy	2	410	May 25, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Sunrise Quote - 5/23 (Preview) I just wanted to apologize to those of you who look forward to these daily posts ... for some reason, unknown to me, they stopped coming to me ... they're back, so here goes: The last of ones freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.Viktor Frankl	Pythonpappy	3	569	May 25, 2014 by Mr_David
	Moving on (Preview) Well the new job is going well. All my criminal court is behind me no jail time. I found a apartment I'm interested in yesterday and have first dibs. It just kind of fell in my lap, thanks GOD. Trying to hash out with the wife about who gets what and who's responsible for what. She agreed to let me have some th...	Enigma	7	793	May 24, 2014 by pinkchip
	Collateral damage (Preview) Ever have one of those ah-ha moments when you realize that things have changed and you didn't recognize it til this moment? Just had one of those. I have recently shared some e-mails with a couple of local folks in AA and the things shared were, in my opinion, some high quality spiritual snippets. I w...	Angell	2	597	May 24, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	SATURDAY (Preview) EASY DOES ITKEEP IT SIMPLEHOW IMPORTANT IS ITLIVE AND LET LIVELET GO AND LET GODDONT OVER ANALYZEDONT THINK THINK THINKLEARN TO RELAXLIGHTEN UPGET OFF THE TRAINIF ITS FIXED DONT FIX ITSTAY OUT OF THE DRAMATHE ONLY ONE YOU CAN CONTROL IS YOUDONT SWEAT THE PETTY STUFFACCEPT THE THINGS YOU CANNOT CHANG...	Philipld	3	540	May 24, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Um am I being stupid to have a friend? (Preview) So I have a new male friend. I'm not dating I only have 6 months and honestly I'm doing what is suggested of me. This person I really really like. He has an amazing story. He is two years younger than me and has 13 years sober. We have gone to coffee and dinner and I have now had him to my house for dinner. We bare...	Lizmccal	30	905	May 23, 2014 by Tomas
	Fear (Preview) This Matter of Fear By Bill W. As the AA Book says, "Fear is an evil, corroding thread; the fabric of our lives is shot through with it." Fear is surely a bar to reason, and to love, and of course it invariably powers anger, vainglory and aggression. It underlies maudlin guilt and paralyzing d...	Philipld	0	599	May 23, 2014 by Philipld
	Today's Gift - 5/23 (Preview) To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light.--Evelyn ScottWe need to know that we matter in this life. We need evidence that others are aware of our presence. And thus, we can be certain that others need the same att...	Pythonpappy	2	427	May 23, 2014 by Mike B.
	Flooding My Mind With AA (Preview) I have been a victim of my own self-defeating thoughts for most all of my life. I bought into my flawed belief system in that when a thought entered my mind, I believed it. No matter how ridiculous, absurd, unfair, unkind, negative, and especially how untrue it was--it was "true" to me becau...	betterthanyesterday52	14	823	May 23, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Don't Cry Over Spilt (or Spilled) Milk (Preview) The other night right before a meeting, I was reaching into the fridge to get a can of water. When I did this, I knocked out a glass of milk (we use glasses for creamers for our coffee sometimes when I'm too lazy to wash the creamer). The glass hit the floor and milk went everywhere--under the fridge, front...	betterthanyesterday52	1	776	May 23, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Dry Drunk (Preview) What is a dry drunk, and the dry drunk syndrome as it is sometimes called? It can best be described as someone who fits one of two conditions. The first is someone who has given up drinking and drugging and not made any internal or emotional changes, they stay the same but the substance is gone. Or in the se...	Philipld	4	3888	May 23, 2014 by 2granddaughters
	Grapevine (Preview) May 22"Over the years I've gone to different types of groups to meet different needs in my life or to share experience, strength, and hope about a particular problem I was struggling with. Some days I've been part of the solution for another suffering alcoholic; other days I've been the one who w...	Mike B.	3	491	May 23, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Today's Gift - 5/22 (Preview) Patience is needed with everyone, but first of all with ourselves.--Saint Francis De SalesOne night Sandra was having trouble putting a puzzle together. Angrily, she pushed all the pieces into a huge pile."I can't do this," she said. She got up and walked over to the couch and plopped dow...	Pythonpappy	1	427	May 23, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Graepvine (Preview) May 23 "The word 'alcoholic' does not turn me off anymore; in fact, it is music to my ears when it applies to me."	Mike B.	0	417	May 23, 2014 by Mike B.
	Quick ? About Amends (Preview) Example: Having coffee with another AA'er and my bf. (This person does not have a sponsor, has not worked the steps and is several years sober.) I have overlooked his joking comments about me in the past however decided to take up for myself last night (I was busy yesterday ) and gave it back...	betterthanyesterday52	5	705	May 23, 2014 by Mike D
	My personal recovery. (Preview) The great thing about AA recovery, is the freedom to chose. It's in this environment that I best see the recovery of the individual, from alcoholism. When I came into AA in 1988, I made an investment in my recovery. I bought all the literature that was available at that time, sought the best sponsorshi...	gonee	3	600	May 22, 2014 by Mike D
	Step 11.. (Preview) Prayer is the language of the heart to talk to God. We may use words to express it. Meditation is the listening of the heart to God's word. We may use our ears to listen. AA's step 11: "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only f...	gonee	3	527	May 22, 2014 by tomsteve
	Today's Gift - 5/19 (Preview) "You silly thing," said Fritz, my eldest son, sharply, "don't you know that we must not settle what God is to do for us? We must have patience and wait His time."--Johann R. WyssThe story of the shipwrecked Robinson family is a lesson in patience. It was years before their rescue...	Pythonpappy	2	433	May 22, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Relapse (Preview) Twelve Steps of a Relapse 1. I decided I could handle any emotional problems if other people would just quit trying to run my life. 2. I firmly believe that there is no greater power than myself and anyone who says differently is insane. 3. I made a decision to remove my will and my life from God, who didn't...	Philipld	3	688	May 22, 2014 by betterthanyesterday52
	Dropping in to say hi (Preview) Hi all! It's been some time since I've posted here. That's not to say I don't periodically check in to read up on the board- it's great to see so many new faces. This board and it's members helped me out quite a bit back when I was a new newbie ... I'm still a newbie in my eyes, but not as new to recovery as I once w...	Col	13	747	May 22, 2014 by Mike B.
	Sunrise Quote - 5/17 (Preview) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt	Pythonpappy	2	374	May 21, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) May 19, 2014Quote of the Week"I have to change what I want to get what I want." When I was new in the program, my sponsor suggested that I make a list of all the things I wanted and hoped I'd get from being sober. That was easy because I had a long list. I went ahead and made my list - items that wou...	Pythonpappy	0	700	May 21, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote - 5/20 (Preview) Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.Zig Ziglar	Pythonpappy	0	360	May 21, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote - 5/19 (Preview) Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.Lao Tzu	Pythonpappy	0	369	May 21, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 5/21 (Preview) "The secret, kid," said the seal, bending toward him and speaking behind his flipper, "is to have a good compass and a following wind." --Will Watkins Sid Seal, HousemanThe secret, for us, is to never let our recovery become "dead in the water." We keep a good compas...	Pythonpappy	0	390	May 21, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - 5/20 (Preview) He has served who now and then Has helped along his fellowmen. --Edgar A. GuestIt's hard to be interested in something that seems too remote. Sure, we're sorry for starving people in faraway places. And the TV news story about whole villages disappearing in an earthquake makes us feel terrible - unti...	Pythonpappy	0	426	May 21, 2014 by Pythonpappy
	Drama (Preview) There are some people who thrive on high drama. They like to create it. They feel most comfortable when theyre surrounded by it. Constant drama is not only a lot of work for the individual who is creating it but it is also very draining for those who are around them. It usually doesnt take long to recogniz...	Philipld	5	951	May 21, 2014 by Mike B.
	Proof of meeting attendance (Preview) Is there anything set up to send proof of attendance to meetings for my probation officer? sent a note to the posted email on website and it was returned undeliverable. Looking forward to my first meeting tonight.	grammii	10	9528	May 21, 2014 by grammii
	Grapevine (Preview) May 21 "I can recognize that I'm caught up in my will when I desperately struggle to slam a square peg into a round hole. That's the time for me to back off and trust that God's will is far better than mine."	Mike B.	1	507	May 21, 2014 by Philipld
	Step Eleven (Preview) Prayers in the Big Book Step 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying ONLY for knowledge for His will for us and the power to carry that out. The Eleventh Step starts at the bottom of page 85 and extends through page 88. It's a goo...	Philipld	4	830	May 20, 2014 by Philipld
	Grapevine (Preview) May 20 "Through Step Five, God has removed my shame about being an alcoholic."	Mike B.	1	469	May 20, 2014 by Philipld
	Addiction to Facebook bad for sobriety? (Preview) Anyone else have this problem. I seem to be going through withdrawls and keep wanting to post stuff and be liked with a thumbs up and all my drinking friends are on there so I'm not on there now well anymore. I got sick of being invited out to bars even thought they know I don't drink anymore and seeing there...	Lizmccal	8	847	May 20, 2014 by Lizmccal
	12 Months Hairy AA (Preview) After the week I had last week and this week seems to be starting out about the same, I decided to do some research to see how to cope with it better. I have heard that getting close to a year gets a little rough for AA members. So I researched the following..... "12 Months Hairy AA" ....and the se...	betterthanyesterday52	3	618	May 20, 2014 by Lizmccal
	Step 10 (Preview) Step 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong PROMPTLY admitted it. Notice that the Tenth Step says that when we were wrong we promptly ADMIT it. It doesn't say that when we were wrong we promptly JUSTIFY it. The first three Steps are designed to bring us to the point where we beco...	Philipld	9	1008	May 20, 2014 by Stepchild
	Can you see me down here? (Preview) It seems ironic to me the cyclic nature of life once I got into recovery. So much of what I did in the past, I have adopted once again. My behavior looks similar, but it is for entirely different reasons. I once put myself last, because I believed I wasn't good enough. Then I risked believing that I was...	Angell	12	881	May 20, 2014 by Mike D
	Therapists Don't Walk on Water (Preview) I wanted to share this.... Just some more shi@ about me which had so much to do with leading up to where I am now. It is pretty long-winded so there is a back arrow in the upper left hand corner of your computer for your convenience if you start to get bored. About six years ago, I went to a therapist for marita...	betterthanyesterday52	8	757	May 19, 2014 by Philipld
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